[WEB4LIB] talking browsers or screen readers for public

[Elizabeth A Reiten]

I've been experimenting with the 30-day free trial of IBM's Home Page 
Reader (http://www-3.ibm.com/able/hpr.html) and have found it to be pretty good -- especially since I don't have 
anything to compare it to yet!

It only works with Internet Explorer.  And it uses "the tremendous 
capabilities of IBM's ViaVoice Outloud text-to-speech synthesizer for 
speaking."

Usual caveats in place.

Beth Reiten, Librarian
Digital Library Services
Edmon Low Library
Oklahoma State University
Phone: 405-744-9109
Email: reitene at okstate.edu




Thomas M G Bennett <bennetttm at appstate.edu>
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ReadPlease 2000-------
ReadPlease 2000 is available free of charge. This runs on M$ Windows and
uses the Microsoft Text-to-Speech Engine as most talking programs on 
Windows
does.  http://readplease.com/  <sarcasm>Excellent value for the
price</sarcasm>

TextAloud MP3----------
TextAloud MP3 lets you listen to text you copy to the clipboard.  It uses
'Text to Speech'
technology which actually synthesizes human sounding speech from ordinary
text.  Just copy
text to the clipboard and listen as TextAloud MP3 reads it back to you !

TextAloud MP3 also gives you the option of reading text and saving it to a
file so you can
listen later.  You can create ordinary wav files, or better yet, save the
output in
compressed MP3 format.  Create MP3 files from your email, news articles, 
any
text you want,
download to your portable MP3 player and off you go !
http://www.nextuptech.com


>-----Original Message-----
>From: web4lib at webjunction.org
>[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Isabel Danforth
>Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 8:45 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: [WEB4LIB] talking browsers
>
>
>Has anyone done any testing with the browsers
>mentioned here?
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/557492.asp?0na=2235150j
>
>
>The browsers are Web Media  and Fast Browser.
>
>Anyone use them on a public access machine?
>
>Isabel
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Isabel L. Danforth
>danforth at tiac.net
>Russell Library - Middletown, CT
>http://russelllibrary.org
>Coordinator of Librarians' Online Support Team
>http://gnacademy.tzo.org/lost/
>



Thomas


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-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Drew, Bill
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:13 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: talking browsers or screen readers for public
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We are looking into purchasing software for some public computers to 
provide
better access for those that need screen readers or talking browsers.  Can
anyone make any recommendations?
___________________
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SUNY Morrisville College Library
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